The rights which a man arrogates to himself are relative to the duties which he sets himself, and to the tasks which he feels capable of performing.

Lust and self-mutilation are closely related impulses. There are also self-mutilators among knowers: they do not want to be creators under any circumstances.

That little hypocrites and half-crazed people dare to imagine that on their account the laws of nature are constantly broken; such an enhancement of every kind of selfishness to infinity, to impudence, cannot be branded with sufficient contempt. And yet Christianity owes its triumph to this pitiable flattery of personal vanity.

No artist will tolerate the world for one second as it is.

Every man in creating the beautiful appearance of the dream worlds is a perfect artist.

Illness is a clumsy attempt to arrive at health: we must come to nature's aid with intellect.

To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom.